Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Jul 22 2021 06:41pm)
Something you should know is that statistics about racial IQ that you hear were basically fabricated.
The book The Bell Curve created actively misleading statistics including those of racial IQ. One example, is they took a study done in factory workers in Zimbabwe and high school students at an elite school, converted the results from that study to IQ (which it couldn't be, but they did it anyway with their home-brew method) and then reported the lower-class factory workers as the "average black IQ". Another example was IQ tests done during apartheid. They took the IQ tests from actively subjugated apartheid people and claimed this was the "unoppressed black IQ", because they were still living in Africa and therefore hadn't experienced American racism. Even though they were living under apartheid....
So keep this in mind when you cite IQ results. They have been actively fabricated to make "certain groups" seem smarter than others. In reality, there are plenty of studies that show IQ differences can be easily accounted for with societal conditions. You can raise somebody's IQ several points just by getting them out of financial stress, and you can lower than IQ several points by giving them a financial health questionaire right before they take the test. IQ tests are not nearly as reliable as most people are lead to believe. They are highly variable.
I can't speak on race as it pertains to IQ, because race is a social construct.
IQ is a direct result of adaptation over thousands of years - having to overcome challenging hardship, like bitterly cold temperatures and perpetual war. That's why China's average IQ is insanely high, because for thousands of years they existed in a state of nearly constant faction warfare in an unforgiving climate. This is also why Norther European whites have higher average IQs than Africans, because they moved away from Africa and had to adapt to colder climate and new forms of disease and warfare which developed as a result of technological advances.
This is why the average IQ in America has been progressively dropping since the 1950's. People have grown comfortable and weak genes are being allowed to survive.
When I cite IQ results, I'm not speaking about blacks as a group - I'm speaking about human beings who happen to be black in skin complexion. As I was careful to point out already, there are plenty of examples of blacks with high IQs, like Neil Tyson or the Nigerian immigrants who come here and start businesses.
This post was edited by LoverManGenius on Jul 22 2021 07:59pm